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Getting Started with Research in Nursing

This guide will help you get started with research in nursing at the City Tech library and beyond.

Databases

The library's online databases provide access to articles and images in journals, magazines, newspapers and reference sources. To access the databases listed below, all important in nursing research, click the Articles tab on the library website and select Databases (articles & more).

CINAHL Complete (EBSCO)
CINAHL Complete indexes over 5,000 journals in the fields of nursing and allied health, including all English language nursing journals. Also indexes the contents of books, conference proceedings and dissertations. Full text is provided for more than 1,400 journals.

The Cochrane Library (Wiley)
A collection of databases devoted to evidence-based medicine. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR), also known as Cochrane Reviews, is the most frequently used database in the collection. It provides full-text, systematic overviews of the effects of health care interventions.

MEDLINE Complete (EBSCO)
Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE contains millions of citations to journal articles in biomedicine and the life sciences. Nursing and health administration are among the fields covered. MEDLINE Complete provides full text for more than 2,400 journals indexed in MEDLINE.

PubMed
The National Library of Medicine's search system for health information. Contains millions of references to articles published in biomedical and life sciences journals. Many references have links to full-text articles in PubMedCentral, a free digital archive. Most PubMed references are MEDLINE citations.

Journals and Magazines

The library has many journals and professional publications of interest to nurses. A sampling of titles is listed below:

Are you looking for a specific journal or magazine? Click the Journals tab on the library website. You can search or browse by journal or magazine title or browse by subject in Health & Biological Sciences. If you need an article from a magazine or journal at another library, you may request it through interlibrary loan.

Finding Books and More in the Library

Use the library catalog to find books, videos and other resources on nursing and related topics. You can begin searching in the Books tab on the library website. Here are some of the many subjects to use in your search:

Would you prefer an ebook? Each of the library's ebooks is included individually in the library catalog, but you can also search for ebooks within a specific collection. Follow this link for a list of the library's ebook collections. Quick tip: Although many of the ebook collections contain books on nursing and health care, be sure to look at the Ovid Nursing collection!

Reference Resources

Want an overview of your topic? Need to check a fact or find the meaning of a word or concept? A reference resource or a textbook is often the best place to begin your research or to look up specific information. Here are just a few of the many reference resources (e.g., dictionaries, encyclopedias, atlases, handbooks and manuals) and textbooks that may be useful in your research:

Professional/Academic Organizations

Professional organization websites often provide valuable, discipline-specific information as well as links to quality resources in a given field. A sampling of the many professional and academic nursing organizations is listed below. For an extensive list of specialty nursing organizations, visit ANA's Organizational Affiliates page.